Albert Pierrepoint Quotes

The trouble with the death penalty has always been that nobody wanted it for everybody, but everybody differed about who should get off.

Albert Pierrepoint

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• Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.

  

  Nas
  • You
  • Struggle
  • Appreciate

• We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Know
  • Person
  • Actions

• 'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Work
  • Past
  • Present

• I just lost interest in performing.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Lost
  • Interest
  • Just

• The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Work
  • Responsibility
  • Leadership

• Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law deal me penalties and pains And make me hideous in my neighbours' eyes.

  

  Ada Cambridge
  • Law
  • Eyes
  • Justice

• Everyone loves each other for the pilot. But once you start to do the show, you see everybody's true colors. If it's successful, people start to change, and then if it's not doing well, people start to change in other ways.

  

  Vanessa Marano
  • People
  • True
  • Change

• I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • Life
  • Prayer
  • Sin

• Do not wave stick when trying to catch dog.

  

  Earl Derr Biggers
  • Trying
  • Dog
  • Wave

• I think there's a very fine line between the type of performing that some actors do, and being in a state in your mind where you actually believe what's going on. If we weren't actors, what would we do with that ability? Would we not be slightly insane? Mentally ill? I don't know.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Think

• The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Time
  • Help
  • Scholars

• I am very patriotic and grew up in a house with football fans.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • House
  • Football
  • Fans

• Even at the end of a presidential election campaign, we have no way to know what Mitt Romney really believes.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Know
  • End
  • Presidential

• Back then it was a very realistic thing for me. My own thing was, you know, wake up at 5 in the afternoon, it's dark out, hang out, maybe take a shower, then start drinking, start smoking pot, go out with friends, get wasted.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Dark

• If one has no vanity in this life of ours, there is no sufficient reason for living.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Life

• ‘Yes, my friend,’ he said. ‘It is so easy to be an American - here in Paris! A nasal voice - the chewing gum - the little goatee - the horned-rimmed spectacles - all the appurtenances of the stage American…’

  

  Agatha Christie
  • American
  • Friend
  • Paris

• Marx was the magnificent philosopher of working class violence.

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • Violence

• I finally learned from Fred Durst, who is of my generation, that 'selling out' means every ticket at The Forum got sold. I don't think Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera sit there agonizing over their record sales. The term 'sell out' needs to be eradicated from the language, because if you don't 'sell out,' guess what? An asshole will.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Sales
  • Asshole

• My mum, Helen, was hilarious. She had a tremendous sense of humour and was a great singer and tap dancer. For many years, she was the voice of Minnie Mouse in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. She would be in the float as it came along, singing whatever the Minnie Mouse song of the day was. She was a really big spirit in my life.

  

  Billy Crystal
  • Life
  • Great
  • She

• Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.

  

  John Dryden
  • Death
  • Fear

• I need to be famous so I can talk about religion. I can talk about God. It's an expensive price that I have to pay to be the most famous man on earth and I do it with pleasure only for God. My fight is only and introduction to the real fight, the one for God. Fighting by itself doesn't interest me anymore. I want to help people, the black people and I need any kind of media to spread my thought: God, charity, peace.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • God
  • Religion
  • Price

• You know what a woman's curiosity is.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Know
  • Curiosity
  • Woman`s

• No longer a mark of distinction or proof of achievement, a college education is these days a mere rite of passage, a capstone to adolescent party time.

  

  William A. Henry III
  • Education
  • College
  • Achievement

• The trouble with the death penalty has always been that nobody wanted it for everybody, but everybody differed about who should get off.

  

  Albert Pierrepoint
  • Death
  • Wanted
  • Get Off